Video of Rendezvous with Charged Hotel Staffer ...Just 3 Hrs Before Death
Liam Payne sought out the hotel employee accused of delivering him drugs very shortly before his death ... and their interaction is captured in this newly discovered surveillance footage.
TMZ exclusively obtained the video showing Liam briefly stepping out of an elevator in the basement of the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires... chatting with one of the 3 people charged in connection with his death.
Our sources at the hotel tell us the staffer who shakes hands and chats with Liam in the video is Ezequiel David Pereyra ... a bellboy at the hotel who police say delivered drugs to Liam in a soap box. While police have not yet confirmed it's Pereyra in this video, we know they have the footage.
It shows Pereyra stacking chairs in the basement with other hotel staffers when the elevator door opens and Liam pops out, they share some words and slap hands ... and then Pereyra heads out through a doorway.
The video was recorded around 2:04 PM ... about 3 hours before Liam fell to his death from the balcony of his third-floor hotel suite.
Based on the interaction here, it appears Liam and Ezequiel are pretty friendly ... possibly because they knew each other already, and had met previously during Liam's stay in Buenos Aires.
